MysticPaste – Integrating Hazelcast as the backend

November 4, 2009

After meeting Talip Ozturk at Java2Days in Sofia back in October, I was inspired to take Hazelcast out for a test drive. What better way to do this, than to throw it head first into our little pet project pastebin! After perusing the well put together documentation on the project’s website, I set [...]

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Java2Days 2009 Conference in Bulgaria

November 2, 2009

Last month in early October, I attended the Java2Days conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. This being the first conference put on in the Balkans and one that reached out to an international set of speakers, I wasn’t expecting it to be any different than the other myriad of conferences. Boy was I wrong. [...]

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Mystic speaking at Java2Days in Sofia

September 21, 2009

Andrew Lombardi, head geek around here will be speaking at Java2Days in Sofia, Bulgaria on October 8th – 9th, 2009! We’ll be talking about delving into Apache Wicket for the first time, and cover an actual application and look at real source code. In addition we’ll be giving a more advanced talk covering [...]

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After the 5 Days of Wicket: Upgrading to Wicket 1.4

July 31, 2009

If you follow anything about Wicket, you know that they just released Wicket 1.4 which offers some very nice improvements and structural changes that make it even more awesome of a framework to work with. Back in March of this year we brought you 5 Days of Wicket, so in today’s post we upgrade [...]

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DZone Refcard – Getting Started with Apache Wicket

July 27, 2009

DZone has just published a new Refcard by yours truly on their website. See the icon and link below for that, please download it, and read the author interview.

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Review of Revenue Boot Camp 2009

July 13, 2009

On a whim, a twitter whim, I decided to head up to San Jose last Friday for Revenue Boot Camp. The day was prepared by Guy Kawasaki and the folks at Garage. Arrived the day before, hung out with some friends in San Francisco, got to bed at a reasonable hour and prepared [...]

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Loading Javascript on your page properly

July 11, 2009

Developing interactivity in your website pages will require you, to build a portion of it with javascript. If that javascript needs to perform its actions when the DOM has finished loading, you have several options depending on if you are using a javascript library or not. If you’re going the non-library route, you can do the following

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Lamenting the news media

July 8, 2009

The news media is dead.
The internet is the smoking gun, and the people are the bullets. Watching the nightly news used to involve talking heads who we believed in and trusted. The anchors were bringing us news from around the world, straight to that magical television set, information we couldn’t get anywhere else, [...]

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Mystic’s Pastebin gets some minor updates

July 6, 2009

With our pastebin MysticPaste.com, one of the biggest roadblocks to a clean-looking UI, is keeping it uncluttered while offering the functionality needed. Apple and a majority of the software released for their operating system seems to “get it”. Sensible defaults and all that are important in keeping it simple.

At Mystic we’ve used our [...]

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iPhone 3G and a bucket of chicken

June 28, 2009

Being the proud owner of a new iPhone 3GS, I thought it prudent to sell off my old 3G, which Apple replaced for me about two weeks ago. The activity usually involves a trip to CraigsList or eBay, depending on how I’d like to handle the product and purchase. Lately, it’s been so [...]

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